On December 9, 1999, Yves Cizaire, manager of MIS, had just returned from a steering committeemeeting where a difficult decision had been made. After having successfully implemented SAP´sERP software package R/3 in the head office and two distribution centers using a phasedimplementation...

This paper is based on a comparative case study on the development of electronic orderingsystems - an example of inter-organizational information systems (IOIS) - linkingpharmaceutical wholesalers and pharmacies in Ireland and Australia respectively. Based on abrief account of the market...

This paper outlines the theoretical concept of a studycurrently under way in China. Its main idea is to explorethe sustainability of centralized inter-organizationalsystems for supply chain management as proposed byMarkus et al. ([8]). The study draws on institutionaltheory in both its older and...

In this paper, we raise the issue of the appropriate unit of analysis for e-commerce studies.Once it is acknowledged that the unit of analysis in e-commerce studies should comprisemore than one firm, the question is, which organizations should be included, i.e. how tobound the unit? We discuss...

The paper sets out with considering increased decision interpendencies in the Transnational Organization due to autonomous IT deployment in national subsidiares. It proceeds by proposing Mulitfactor Productivity as a controlling instrument for managing the increased level of decision...

As part of an international empirical study we have developed a high-level theory of the structureand evolution of inter-organizational information systems (IOIS), but face two issues in testingthis theory; the very large set of factors possibly influencing IOIS and need to bound a...